Your anger is misplaced. I'm not making you fix any machines. Were it up to me, you'd get 3 months vacation pay starting tomorrow, you clearly need it.
It's my general comment about I no longer consent. Please excuse my tone.
Three months... but it's not just the pay.
By the grace of God, the genius Satoshi Nakamoto, and my willingness to get in earlier and deeper than most, I now have some agency. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56049234-thank-god-fo...
In some ways, John Galt said and exhibited 'my body, my choice.' https://aynrand.org/novels/atlas-shrugged/
Amen brother, stay strong
> Capitalism would have let those failures fail
Capitalism wouldn't have shut down borders preventing airlines from taking on passengers. Government action led to airlines taking massive losses.
Re:Why is U.S. labor supply so low?
by hansel_der on Sunday December 26, 2021 @07:15AM
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how is an airline entitled to profit from cross-border travel?
Capitalism is about free trade. Airlines grew to their size based on a certain economic condition (free travel between nations). Pulling that out from under them resulted in massive loss of income.
It's not about entitled or not. It's about the fact government action directly harmed them, whether or not justified.
Re:Why is U.S. labor supply so low?
by hansel_der on Sunday December 26, 2021 @07:54AM
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so the market conditions changed.
They didn't. Authoritarian intervention happened.
Re:Why is U.S. labor supply so low?
by hansel_der on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @07:06AM
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that assesment hinges on the view if the pandemic neccesitated/warranted lockdowns.
"Capitalism is about free trade."
No, it's not.
Way to be pedantic. You're right, strictly speaking it's about investing capital (in the economic sense) in order to profit from it. In practice it's all about reducing barriers to trade whether within or outside a country since every other economic system aims to limit some aspect of economic freedom as 'capitalism' is basically just the natural result of barrier-free trade.
I'm sure an immigrant would love your job and probably do it for less money if we're really talking about unbridled capitalism.
It can be done with time and desire. Learn how to diagnose, cost, repair hydraulic, electrical, diesel, undercarriage, and rebuild stored energy accumulators without injuring yourself. Some of the time will be on oil/gas pads and get your MSHA papers so you can be left by yourself at night fixing a machine where there is no phone service. And use cutting gear and liquid nitrogen safely. It can be done.
'It's the best protection we have against serious illness'
The best protection each person has is to remove their comorbidities including being obese and having no lung capacity. Maybe eat less and exercise.
'not that any of us have any real choice in that matter.'
Go fix your own machines.